Edward Saltzberg

Initially trained as an engineer, Ed’s passion has always been education. In the late 1960s, shortly after Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” hit the bookstores, he developed a high school environmental science course while teaching math and physics at a Boston preparatory school. It was a new idea for secondary school systems, and students jumped at this opportunity to get outdoors and explore man’s impact on the planet. That experience led him to the University of Virginia to earn a doctorate in Environmental Sciences, the only place to get that degree in the 1970s. Times certainly have changed. For the next few decades, he worked in industry and led environmental and energy analyses for federal and state agencies.

In 2009, he found his passion when he formed the Security and Sustainability Forum to convene global experts in free webinars to educate sustainability decision-makers, practitioners, and citizens on addressing the impacts to society from the degradation of natural systems. Two hundred and fifty webinars later, thousands of educators from around the globe use SSF productions for curriculum enrichment, and professionals stay current on the most pressing security and sustainability challenges.

In addition to SSF, Ed leads the Professional Education Program at George Washington University’s Environmental and Energy Management Institute and is a partner in a new firm that helps Native American Tribes improve the wellbeing of their nations through resilient energy programs. Sound science and raising the level of understanding about the responsibility of living on Earth is what gets Ed motivated every day.